| Term | Definition |
| banishment | exile |
| calamity | disaster |
| commend | praise |
| dexterity | skill |
| prevail | triumph |
| reconcile | settle |
| vile | wicked |
| abate | reduce, make less |
| array | orderly display |
| beguile | deceive or trick |
| bier | structure for coffin |
| dirge | funeral hymn |
| distraught | deeply worried, tense, bewildered |
| fester | develop pus, rot |
| prostrate | kneel or fall flat |
| receptacle | container |
| shroud | burial cloth |
| abhor | hate, detest, loathe |
| apothecary | druggist |
| amorous | loving |
| conspire | plan secretly with someone |
| devise | to plan, think up |
| dispose | kill, get rid of |
| felon | criminal |
| inter | bury |
| paramour | lover |
| sepulcher | tomb |
| tedious | boring |
| unsavory | offensive, unclean, morally bad |